With the building under Russian cosmodrome Vostochny are planning to launch carrier rockets “Soyuz” with the apparatus of the world’s largest satellite constellation OneWeb. Reported TASS referring to the press service of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
«East will be used to launch the” union “with foreign communication satellites under a contract between Roscosmos, Arianspace and OneWeb», – said the representative of the agency. The number of starts with media devices OneWeb, which will be implemented with the new site, the source did not name. The decision on this issue will take in 2016 for the first launches of “Soyuz».
June 25, 2015 the first company Arianespace and OneWeb announced a contract for the launch of spacecraft mobile satellite OneWeb. The agreement provides for the purchase from Russia 21 carrier rocket “Soyuz”, which in the period from 2017 to 2019 will withdraw into orbit 672 satellites.
Rockets will have to display the data on the target machines near polar orbit at an altitude of 1.2 thousand kilometers in combined weight of the head portion to 5.5 tons. It is not less than 15 launches will take place from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. If successful, the parties to the contract provides for the possibility of extending it for another five rocket launches “Soyuz” after 2020.
08:50 June 4, 2015
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Media family of “Soyuz” rocket-made space center “Progress” in Samara. They carry conclude space ship “Progress” and “Union” from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and missiles are middle-class company Arianespace, which is to start at Kourou in French Guiana, a special launch pad.
Apart from Kourou and Baikonur rocket “Soyuz” started from the site in Plesetsk. The first launch under construction at the Russian cosmodrome Vostochny is planned with the help of a rocket “Soyuz”. According to the plans of the Russian Space Agency, this should happen in December 2015.
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